Out of simple materials-the Pinne- bergs racking their brains over the "normal budget," Hans among the nudists, Baby's first tooth (yes, I know, but just read the chapter and see), Hans buying a totally useless dressing-table for Bunny-out of such apparently conventional scenes of do- mestic humor and pathos, Fallada has constructed a warm and tender story of small lives crushed by a system which they do not comprehend. It is not hard to understand why "Little Man, What Now?" has made hundreds of thousands of European readers tremble between tears and laughter. It works in the reader a kind of moral transformation such as our great-grandfathers must have ex- perienced with the early novels of Charles Dickens. Once and for all, it dramatizes with insight and delicious humor and relentless pathos the fact that despite all multi-headlined new deals, it will be long before we will be able to nominate for oblivión the forgotten man. " I CAN stand almost anything bet- ter than a solitary evening," writes Arnold Bennett in the last vol- ume of his "Journal" (1921-1928). This fascinating book should be read by all who are interested in watching the tragedy of a fine talent slowly murdered by the amiable assassin so- ciability. Bennett had a mania for " " d . h " 1 d contacts -an In IS neat, e ger- like "Journal" he recorded everyone of them. His tremendous enthusiasm for people (a category which, in his later period, does not appear to have included anybody with an income of less than twenty thousand a year) enabled him to enjoy the company of Nöel Coward, Otto Kahn, and Liberal politicians. As his acquaint- ances grew more notable, his novels grew less so. He died having lived on twenty-four hours a day, except for one noble interval during which he wrote "The Old Wives' Tale." The Viking Press, which publishes this third and last instalment, an- nounces that the complete "Journal" is now also available in one volume. It should be well worth owning. T HOSE who have been following Arthur W aley' s magnificen t trans- lation of Lady Murasaki's "The Tale of Gen ji" will note with interest that Houghton Mifflin have just' published the sixth and last volume of the great Japanese medieval classic. I t is called "The Bridge of Dreams" and Mr. 71 P ",, ,<<; :,.' .... ............... ..,' ...,>..... '... , r /f J "( / ' .', , ---- . . . . ..... .... ,"",' 'X" ,'" ." .-=:=-:;." "J'." :-:..:;ÿ u" ..... .' ---.. , :.-- .. .. ""'. :'J\ .. ; ,:3: , \ ":,.'-f,',>- '\\ý,j' ..\ . ) " . . ...F t -- . :: :'::, d :",, Øi:, t [, ." .., " .... ".",,,,,, ' .. ., .. f.", \'-. [, pt- ..\ 0' d " .,,'., ( 'tilf\ ' . /( I:{:' ,. ,'H , ",,:, .,:: ; .(;: ,., , ' . , ; 'l, .;:::: . ; ' . ' .., ." .." " "'f ':;::\ ,.:.;, . $:=;.:". . :: t' . , ' . . ...( ': :::.. i" I . ::;:>..: I::. .... # ., , -t..:'. , ;,{.., tl:::" -. :....,." .... ... " ,:" mttài;':'i,?"" ,t .. ,:,...,:,t:tit?4: ., in the Cabin Class of the Lloyd Cabin Liners Berlin · Steuben Stuttgart · Dresden and in Tourist Class and Third Class to England · Ireland · France and German}? Write for folder GelnütlieL.keit" ....::v 'M'''' *'':'''' . 0 " "" "' ii. ( '" , I NortL Germ.an Lloyd TL.e Line of tL.e Brelnen and Europa 57 BroadwaY7 Neu, York City Offices and Agents Everyu,kere